Posted by Davy Bui on July 6th, 2009 in Politics
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Let’s call it like it is: Palin is now a proven quitter.

The woman whom supporters affectionately referred to as Sarah Barracuda and a pitbull with lipstick (OK, she put that tag on herself), ostensibly because she is so tenacious, has announced that she is quitting as governor of Alaska on the flimsiest of grounds (something about costly ethics investigations and lame-duck status). Pretty weak stuff.

Obviously, she is trying to move into the bigger national spotlight and that’s hard to do when you’re closer to Russia than California. But why would anyone vote for a proven quitter? The alleged pitbull with lipstick turned out to be nothing more than a pampered toy poodle.

I am not anti-Republican but I am anti-idiocy and people like Sarah Palin and Mark Sanford continue to make the GOP an unpalatable alternative to the spineless Democrats. Of course, semi-sensible folks like Ron Paul or Arnold Schwarzenegger can not get real traction in the GOP in its current make-up.

But things change awfully fast in politics nowadays. It was only four years ago when Karl Rove dreamed of a permanent “conservative” majority. Perhaps one day soon, we will once again have a conservative movement that stands for fiscal and personal responsibility but without the bigot, fundamentalist and big-brother government undertones.